Biography
Colin Sutherland has been working on Subsea positioning technology since he graduated from the Shell Mechatronics scheme in 2008. Since joining Sonardyne, a leading company in underwater acoustics, he has been working on a variety of niche subsea projects involving subsea positioning, bespoke wireless communications and acoustic monitoring applications. Based in Aberdeen he has participated in a wide range of operations across Europe. This includes Seabed Subsidence monitoring, where large arrays of Sonardyne equipment are used to monitor deformation of the seabed, large structure tow out and installation projects, using a mix of acoustic repeater node networks, high accuracy sensors, USBL and LBL technology along the way. In his current sales Engineer role he is mainly focussed on wireless command, control and monitoring solutions with some crossover into many of Sonardyne’s other positioning system range and bespoke projects.